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H. revcriories Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 503. Here again, and 
still once more in the following case, Tam n indebted to the Fe heoe 
of M. de Candolle in co ape a scrap with the type in his 
historical family herbarium. The Museum specimen was collected 
by Hilsenberg and Bojer, the ae renying agen rearing the 
inscription ‘an ? Justicia malabarica Vahl. in prov. Emeri 
Fer ra I Se al es pee ak ee ab to thig in the oe 
erbar 
H. Tuomsoniana Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 502. A small scrap 
collected by ec Thompson has = gies characters noted by 
Nees-in respect of his plant named as above, and M. de Candolle 
finds that it —_ perfectly with a pat Thompeom undoubtedly 
collected both the Museum. and the Geneva specimens, the latter 
having apabatiy been communicated to andolle 
ypoestes Elliotii, sp.nov. Caule sibndiitte parum ramoso 
deorsum patule pubescente vel subhispido, ramis distanter foliosis 
minute pubescentibus puberulisve, foliis tis ovatis 
utrinque obtusis vel obtusissimis faciebus ee appresse pube- 
rulis membranaceis rages secundariis 3-4 quarum 2 prope tens 
cost centrali-insertis ascendenti-fornicatis, flor ean mediocribus in 
cymis plurifloris axillaribus sessilibus. digestis, ‘nrolalaste saitdtsbus 
1-floris 4-bracteolatis, bracteis obovatis vel obovato-oblongis pube- 
rulis, bracteolis lanceolatis sursum longe aaa eer San ne 
loso- pubescentibus interioribus quam exteriore aullo oribus, 
calycis bracteolis duplo ‘revioris pte tition piers: ‘pinbiti 
corolle extus pubes tu nvolucro eminente dimidio 
pilosulo-puberulis, ovario ovoideo ut =_ aliquanto compressus 
glabro.—H. adse , Hb. Kew. non 
Hab. adagascar, Ankanatra oes SP Hildebrandt, 8861. 
ser ena ; Scott Elliot, 1985. 
modice 1-5-2-0 x 1-:0-1'7 cm. (excluso petiolo puberulo 
nte usca 
interiores 0°75 em. long. Calyx 0°4 em. long. Coroll tubus 
-2 cm. long., inferne 0-2 cm. superne 0°3 cm. diam.; labium 
posticum 0°5 < 0-225 em. ; antici lobi obovati, 7 deat, 03 cm. 
long. Filamentorum pars ‘exserta 0-25 em. long., anther 0°12 cm. 
Ovarium 0-15 ae. stylus vix 1°5 cm. long. 
rted next 
To rioides Nees, which has narrow 
pa i shorter involucres with a shorter narrowed extremity, 
arkedly eet Faoacliae: &e. 
Hypoestes leptostegia, sp, nov. Spithamea vel ultra ram 
ramulisque oaabterstibus griseo-pubescentibus puberulisve poveltie 
albido-tomentosis, foliis parvulis bre evipetiolatis_ ovatis obtusis vel 
obtuse acutis basi palette ny pila - griseo-pubescentibus 
tandem puberulis floralibus iis similibus nisi minoribus ultimi 
= minutis, floribus in nts sain panies pubescenti- 
us digestis, involucris teretibas unifloris 4-bracteolatis, bracteolis 
